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  • Northrop Integrates ANSYS Avionics into Black Hawk Display Systems; Simona Kelley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Integrates ANSYS Avionics into Black Hawk Display Systems; Simona Kelley Comments

    Northrop Grumman has applied ANSYS‘ software into the development of new Black Hawk helicopter cockpit display systems in order to meet avionics standards. Northrop is upgrading the UH-60L Black Hawk cockpit to UH-60V using the ANSYS SCADE suite and SCADE display integrated avionics software, ANSYS said Wednesday. “SCADE allows us to take full advantage of model-based engineering, resulting in improved development and testing […] More

  • Craneware Buys Kestros, Appoints Russ Rudish to Board; Keith Neilson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Craneware Buys Kestros, Appoints Russ Rudish to Board; Keith Neilson Comments

    Craneware has bought Kestros Ltd. for $2.08 million in a move to bolster Craneware’s presence in the patient access market, Daily Record reported. Scott McCulloch writes that Edinburgh-based medical billing software developer Craneware plans to expand the use of Kestros’ technology platform from the National Health Service Trusts to the growing healthcare market. “This investment […] More

  • Exelis to Build Composite Missile Bodies for Lockheed's Standoff Missile; Mike Blair Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis to Build Composite Missile Bodies for Lockheed’s Standoff Missile; Mike Blair Comments

    Exelis will build composite missile structures for Lockheed Martin‘s two batches of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile under a $20 million contract. Exelis will manufacture the structures for more than 400 baseline and extended-range JASSM versions by composite braiding and resin-transfer mold technologies, Exelis said Wednesday. “We believe this contract is a reflection of our customer’s confidence in Exelis as a […] More

  • Tableau Software Offers MarkLogic NoSQL Connector; Joe Pasqua, Dan Jewett Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tableau Software Offers MarkLogic NoSQL Connector; Joe Pasqua, Dan Jewett Comment

    MarkLogic and Tableau Software have forged a partnership, under which Tableau will offer MarkLogic’s NoSQL connector for organizations to analyze data. The companies seek to help business analysts gain insight into business performance through a Tableau-connected MarkLogic enterprise NoSQL database, MarkLogic said Tuesday. “Through the partnership with Tableau, we are helping businesses find the information that matters, so that it can be visualized and […] More

  • European Space Agency Taps QinetiQ Baffle for Euclid Telescope; Malika De Ridder Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    European Space Agency Taps QinetiQ Baffle for Euclid Telescope; Malika De Ridder Comments

    QinetiQ has received a $2.9 million contract to build a baffle for the European Space Agency‘s Airbus-built Euclid space telescope. The baffle is a black cylindrical structure and is built to prevent stray light from entering into the telescope’s optics, QinetiQ said Sept. 30. ESA led the development of the Euclid mission with Thales Alenia Space Turin in an effort to probe the “dark energy” that some […] More

  • General Dynamics Starts USSOCOM Ground Vehicle Low-Rate Production; Tim Neaves Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Starts USSOCOM Ground Vehicle Low-Rate Production; Tim Neaves Comments

    General Dynamics is set to begin the low-rate initial production phase under a contract to build ground mobility vehicles for the U.S. Special Operations Command. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems is contracted to build 72 vehicles through 2016 under the Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1 program, which the company won in August 2013, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “We look forward to continuing this strong partnership […] More

  • Ranaan Horowitz: Elbit Systems to Help DHS Demo Broadband Services in Interoperability Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ranaan Horowitz: Elbit Systems to Help DHS Demo Broadband Services in Interoperability Push

    An Elbit Systems subsidiary has been selected to test the Department of Homeland Security‘s broadband services for public safety operations. Elbit Systems of America will demonstrate WideBridge, which works to combine mission systems with the Federal Information Processing Standards-approved BlackBerry BES10 workspace and Etherstack’s P.25 networks, Elbit Systems said Tuesday. “Ongoing efforts to establish important interoperable broadband solutions for the FirstNet […] More

  • Cisco to Help Alberta Modernize Patient Care Systems; Nitin Kawale Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco to Help Alberta Modernize Patient Care Systems; Nitin Kawale Comments

    Cisco has teamed up with the University of Calgary’s W21C Program and Alberta Health Services to further the development of healthcare services in Alberta. The team will use Cisco’s technologies and strategies to attempt to modernize and deliver patient care systems in hospitals and households through a virtual hub, Cisco said Monday. “Cisco believes that the future […] More

  • Northrop to Unveil New SATCOM Terminals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Unveil New SATCOM Terminals

    Northrop Grumman will introduce new protected terminals for satellite communications that the company built to help the U.S. military protect warfighters. The company will unveil three variants of the terminals at the MILCOM 2014 conference between Oct. 6 and 8 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Northrop Grumman said Monday. Northrop is scheduled to demonstrate the terminals in 2015 and the systems are intended to go […] More

  • Exelis to Launch New Electronic Warfare Offering; Joe Rambala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis to Launch New Electronic Warfare Offering; Joe Rambala Comments

    Exelis will unveil a multifunctional electronic warfare system at a symposium Tuesday in Washington. The Disruptor SRx EW technology works to respond to changing mission requirements in real time, Exelis said Monday. “Disruptor SRx is an important milestone in the company’s long history of innovating to protect against evolving electronic threats,” said Joe Rambala, vice president and general […] More

  • Toby Seay Named President of Bechtel's Newly Formed Infrastructure Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Toby Seay Named President of Bechtel’s Newly Formed Infrastructure Business

    Bechtel has formed a new infrastructure global business unit to be led by Toby Seay as president. The London-headquartered infrastructure business unit combines the company’s civil, water, power, aviation and rail business lines, Bechtel said Monday. “The creation of Bechtel’s new infrastructure business leverages the iconic global presence of our civil business and the lump-sum, direct-hire EPC execution capabilities of […] More

  • Pentagon to Examine Commercial Cloud-Data Center Integration Ideas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon to Examine Commercial Cloud-Data Center Integration Ideas

    The Defense Department is exploring two options to integrate commercial cloud services into the agency’s data centers, Information Week reported Friday. Jai Vijayan writes the Defense Information Systems Agency has released a request for information in search of ideas from industry on ways to have cloud vendors deliver services to the U.S. military using DoD’s network and facilities. Under a potential data […] More